[mtp-teoria] Má pojem nová média dnes je¹tì co øíci?

[slavo krekovic]

hey, just a brief explanation:
in the discussion with pavel, i was just trying to claim that the new 
media culture is no longer an easily definable entity as it maybe was 
back in the 90s, and that we should also rethink the term new media (is 
there still anything new about them? until when?), as well as consider 
the problem whether technology (becoming more and more widespread and 
available) can still be the key definition aspect of any social, 
cultural or artistic movement nowadays. these ideas came from the 
debates that we had around multiplace festival --- we decided not to use 
the words "new media culture" in the title anymore --- and also from a 
talk i had with andreas broeckmann. i partly understand pavel's 
viewpoint, also because our problem is that, on one hand, we want to 
build up some infrastructures and find funding for "new media art" 
projects in our "special" countries, but on the other hand, there has to 
be a critical debate around this topic as well --- reflecting the 
social, but also aesthetic changes that we experienced in the last 
couple of years (e.g. something that i would temporarily call 
*post-digital aesthetics* --- this can be seen also in new ways of using 
old media, influenced by the digital). but i am in no way defender of 
any transhumanist or techno-fetishist ideologies that probably 
could/should support the discourse around the funding of cultural projects.
ciao,
s

>To be honest, I took Slávo's side from the beginning. In this will to
>promote new technologies I see a narrow-sighted heritance of fin de
>siécle enthusiasm of progress as a key to final human deliberation and
>welfare of civilization. I see the ancestors of modernity blatantly
>legitimizing the actual state of culture advancement as the most
>devoloped in the history so far. And finally I see a residual
>technological determinism thrown aside in academic sphere for more
>than twenty years by now, but still capable to distort our notion of
>reality in the context of general culture production.
>
>I am not saying I don't see a point in the promotion of technologies
>per se, but on the other hand I think we got overhyped.
>Just to provoke a further debate I will take radical position now:
>actually, what are the specific reasons to promote the new
>technologies? Let us summerize  - as I believe this is crucial -
>because not just there haven't never been any clear answers, even the
>question itself had been down gradually down-trodden considered naive
>and who knows what else...
>
>As I have said, exaggerating the role of technology in culture
>advancement stinks of technological determinism and interpreting them
>as inherently democratic or anyhow benefecial is as strongly naive as
>the former one, if not more.
>
>I hope the discussion, I have planned since the beginning and tried to
>invoke with the assistance of Pavel and Slávo debating, will go on and
>more people will present their opinions, I am looking sincerly forward
>to.
>
>Cheers,
>
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